🛡️ CVE-2024-27612 — editor

🟡 CVSS 6.2 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 NVD
6.2
CVSS Score
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Description

Numbas editor before 7.3 mishandles editing of themes and extensions.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-27612 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2024-27612 is recorded against 1 package.

  • editor (fixed in 7.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 8 March 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
www.numbas.org.uk
github.com
www.numbas.org.uk

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-03-08
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
editor — 7.3

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